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If this is true, and I'm skeptical of it, why would dealers over most of New England not be installing them in mid-1993? I find it hard to believe a HUGE risk like the new MM wouldn't have been marketed intensely in the year following its introduction (if it was 1992).

If this is true, and I'm skeptical of it, why would dealers over most of New England not be installing them in mid-1993? I find it hard to believe a HUGE risk like the new MM wouldn't have been marketed intensely in the year following its introduction (if it was 1992).

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In 1992, Fisher Engineering introduced the Minute Mount System; a revolutionary mounting system in which the entire snowplow mount is removed from the truck. This allows the truck to retain its original appearance while removing added weight from the vehicle when its not being used for plowing.

Well, I can't say that I ever had a problem with the conventional, as it's what I grew up around. Mine being brand new in 93, it was pretty sweet. And for spring, summer, fall I had a custom welded brush guard made where I removed the upper part of the plowframe. Also, with MM being new back then, I wouldn't have wanted to be the guinea pig for a system that could have been junk (well, we're talking about Fisher here, so it's a few steps above most other systems, so "junk" probably wasn't an option there!).

It was truck dependent early on. Both what the dealer had in stock and what peculiar frames Fisher had produced. We actually horded the older conventional mounts and sold them specifically upon request. I mounted a conventional on my 97 F350 Dump when I got it.

It was a staggered release. In the Fall of 1992 we offered our Compact MM lineup HS series for all of the compact trucks. We did release the F-150 mount also. In the fall of 1993 we released mounts for our RD/HD series starting with the all new 1994 Dodge Ram. We did not want to Mfg. plates for both the MM and Conventional so we started phasing out the conventional mount on most vehicles. Of course if the frame did not change there were conventional mounts that fit some vehicles into the mid-late 90's.